Black & White Checker Cab Company

Cab #953 crazed idiot would be good description.
At about 5pm on Saturday evening (¹⁰⁄₈) He sped up just to cut me off at Oak and Baker since he didnt want to turn. I’ve never had to slam on my brakes so hard.

Don’t use them, they are a rip off.
I used them on a SF — SFO trip paid using my corp AMEX. 2 months later they charged me again, when i called their office the person was rude and said they had nothing to do with it. He said that it was charged by a «contractor» and they could not do anything about it. I disputed the charge with my CC company, they then produced a charge slip without my signature and still claimed it was my charge.
This people are simply a fraud, stay away, ride MUNI or BART or walk before using these people.

Tuesday 11÷16÷10 around 11.00 pm
on Fell and Divisidero St. (ARCO Gas Station)
Taxi 1123
We were waiting in line to get the gas, and his car was behind us. He honked his horn at us many times as if there was some way to magically make all the cars getting a fill up to move out of the gas station. When a car exited the wrong direction the cab forced his way in to get inside the station. He then bypassed the people waiting and cut into the next open spot.
We were getting gas, and my boy friend was outside of the car while
I was waiting inside. Suddenly I heard people yelling, and I turned myself to for what happened. The driver yelled and got so close to my boy friend so I told him that I was going to call the police. He said «Bitch» and «what you looking at Bitch» OMG I was so sure that he could have attacked me if the other people around weren’t starting to come over to see what was happening. He was like a mad dog that was ready to bite anyone and anytime. He still kept saying *sh** and I did call the police just in case anything would happen to us. There were some people walking to see and try to get him go away. We were on the phone with police and told them what was going on. I haven’t seen anyone who showed such poor manners before, especially if you work a service job. You should have a well manner and friendly if your line of work is with customers. After I got back home, we decided to report him to the Black and White Checker Taxi company. The dispatcher gave us instructions on the steps to take and supposedly called the driver to calm down or get off the street.
I am writing this review to let everyone know what happened. I am not upset with this company but I am upset with this person who still is working with this company. I hope they let him go. It is bad for a cab company to hire people like that since it shows negatively for their business.
If you or anyone you know has a bad experience with a taxi driver please call the San Francisco Police hotline that specifically deals with taxi problems at 415−533−9844.

Tourists beware … this place will surely rip you off because they rip off locals. I take a cab to work once a week and with two stops it never exceeds $ 14 (with a $ 2 tip). Today we had the misfortune of catching one of these cabs and the guy was a passive aggressive scam artist.
I ended up getting out of the cab two blocks from work because the meter was already over $ 17 … he made sure it went over $ 17 by not stopping until I had to scream for him to stop. I will go out of my way to avoid this company from now on.

While the door of our cab was open the cabby peeled out and drove off. Nearly injuring two of my friends. No reason. This cab company hires lunatics. Do not use these cabs.

I tried calling this cab company but the phone numbers that I called both ended up as FAX numbers. What kind of lame company is this that can’t take calls! How can they expect to be a real cab company if someone needs a cab but can’t get a hold of anyone. I actually wanted to complain to the cab company manager because one of their drivers blocked my driveway today… and the tow truck didn’t even come after waiting an hour and a half. I have a feeling he’s been doing this more often then I know. The can is back and now I have called for the police to come give him a ticket.
If you disrespect me, I’m not going to show you any respect either.

Terrible service.

August 27, 2008 Cab (van) #1037
Yesterday about 4:15PM I was parallel parking on Scott Street between Geary and Post. Your cab pulled up close behind me and began honking his horn. I waved him around, but he did not move and continued to blow his horn for 3 – 4 minutes. During this time he intentionally rammed my car.
He then pulled up beside me and spat on me. He also yelled obscenities at me. He then proceeded up a few feet, pulled over at the intersection, blocking the handicapped ramp, and came back to my car. He yelled more obscenities and beat on my car with his fists.
Needless to say this was extremely disturbing and caused great anxiety and agitation.
If I were you I would stay far away from this company.

The only reason they get 2 stars is that I had a great cabbie pick me up in BFE Ocean Beach on a chilly night.
I have taken their number out of my phone, however, because I have called twice and waited 20 minutes with no cab in sight. And, because I got reamed for calling the dispatch to cancel my «order» because another cab came.
I definitely don’t appreciate being yelled at for trying to be considerate — especially from a company that is not at all dependable.

Decent taxi service is hard to come by in this city, but luckily I’ve found one that is as good as it gets here.
It’s always the same cab dispatcher that’s manning the lines for Black & White Checker Cab and this guy does a great job following up w/​my calls. He doesn’t give you attitude like other cab co.‘s *cough* Luxor *cough* and is genuinely looking out for you, i.e. tries his best to not make you wait too long. I like how he calls you to give you notice that your driver is downstairs, versus having the cab driver ring your doorbell, only to drive off after you’ve thrown your body down your million stair steps to try and make it in time.
B&W Checker Cab’s dispatcher is a genuinely nice guy that does his best to get you where you need to go. Granted, there have been those 1 or 2 Saturday nights where there’s not 1 available cab, but at least the dispatcher tries his hardest!

short + pithy

6:47 am
Me: Franklin & Pine, please.
Driver: Sansome & Pine. Ok.
M: Franklin. Franklin & Pine.
D: Oh. Okay, Franklin & Kline.
M: No. Pine! Like the tree! Pine Tree. Franklin & Pine.
D: Pine Tree & Franklin?
Sigh.
I should have just taken the 38 muni.